Re: Kernel does strange things when compilations push memory usage above physical memory and the compilations are being done in a tmpfs,despite having ample swap

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:53:02 +1000
Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kame,
> 
> Could the tempfs revert be the same and fix the ramdisk issue I have seen?
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127569877714937&w=2
> I can re-test this evening.
> 

I think no. (and IIUC, the patch is included in 2.6.35-rc1)
Anyway, ramdisk isn't swappable, is it ?
And, this doesn't happen in 2.6.33 or 2.6.34 ?

>From your log.
==
Jun  5 04:51:58 jaunty kernel: [25913.310588] firefox-bin invoked
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oom_adj=0
==
Then, order=1 (2-pages contiguous page allocation) failure.

==
Jun  5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500150] Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB
0*16kB 2*32kB 2*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB
3*4096kB = 15812kB
Jun  5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500157] Node 0 DMA32: 49660*4kB
14*8kB 4*16kB 6*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB
0*4096kB = 200864kB
Jun  5 05:12:29 jaunty kernel: [27142.500165] Node 0 Normal: 63050*4kB
5*8kB 5*16kB 9*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB
0*4096kB = 255744kB
==
It seems fragmented.

Hmm..
==
MemTotal:        8187304 kB
MemFree:          231976 kB
Active:            14056 kB
Inactive:          72592 kB
Active(anon):      12900 kB
Inactive(anon):    53940 kB
Active(file):       1156 kB
Inactive(file):    18652 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0

AND
5GBytes for ramdisk. (Right ?)
==
There are too small memory used for user program or file caches.

In this kind of case, I tend to doubt memory leak (in kernel)
But I feel ramdisk is very large, too...

How about updating to -rc3 or turning on kmemcheck and see what happens ?


Thanks,
-Kame





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